Product Owner – Fixed Term Contract

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Establishing the vision and scope for future services, ensuring they align with user requirements and enhance traceability quality.

• Crafting comprehensive customer journeys that detail how various user groups will engage with the multi-species system.

• Converting service propositions into distinct personas, user needs, and user stories to facilitate design and implementation.

• Developing and maintaining a service blueprint, release roadmap, and a prioritized backlog of tasks.

• Ensuring the service blueprint aligns with the overall LI blueprint by collaborating with other Product Owners and the COO.

• Identifying and defining all third-party interactions to guarantee effective integration across service components.

• Promoting efficiency enhancements within the designated service model.

• Working closely with technical and data teams to outline and deliver service dependencies.

• Collaborating with other service teams to ensure smooth delivery within the broader multi-species ecosystem.

• Partnering with testing and transition teams to ensure well-planned and effectively executed releases.

• Assisting the wider team in recognizing and managing changes, risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, and dependencies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience as a Product Owner, preferably in a start-up or high-paced environment.

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement changes within complex, multi-user, and multi-stakeholder settings with competing priorities.

• Strong history of delivering data-driven services that prioritize user needs and service quality.

• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams throughout the entire product lifecycle, from discovery to live service.

• Capacity to think innovatively and translate user requirements into comprehensive service designs.

• Self-driven with excellent organizational and structured thinking capabilities, able to provide clarity and guidance in a rapidly changing environment.

• Outstanding project management skills, with the ability to efficiently manage multiple priorities.

• Strong interpersonal, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills, with experience in complex or politically sensitive contexts.

• Exceptional communication skills, capable of engaging, influencing, and aligning a diverse range of stakeholders.

• Experience in designing end-to-end service blueprints, developing roadmaps, and managing prioritized backlogs.

🏝️ Benefits

• A fully remote and flexible working arrangement.

• 25 days of annual leave, increasing by 1 day for each year of service up to a maximum of 30 days (in addition to Bank Holidays).

• 1 Privilege Day.

• Four times annual salary Life Assurance.

• Market-leading pension scheme through Legal & General.

• Enhanced Family-Friendly Policies.

• Excellent opportunities for learning, training, and career development.

• 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

• A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued.